{"id":8875,"date":"2025-05-13T16:43:30","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T13:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/?p=8875"},"modified":"2025-05-13T16:45:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T13:45:31","slug":"celebrating-international-francophonie-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/?p=8875","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Celebrating International Francophonie Day<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On March 21, the Department of Translation and Interpretation students came together to celebrate International Francophonie Day with a memorable event, organized by Dr. Ey\u00fcp \u00d6zg\u00fcr \u00d6zen<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The celebration featured a full program combining art, music and linguistic appreciation. Students staged a play titled \u201cLa Vie est une Interpr\u00e9tation,\u201d creatively reflecting the spirit of interpretation and cultural dialogue. This was followed by a mini concert of French songs, showcasing the students&#8217; enthusiasm for French language and culture. Dr. \u00d6zen also delivered an engaging presentation on the playful and fascinating features of the French language, offering participants new perspectives on the richness of French linguistic traditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/frankofoni2-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8879\" width=\"384\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/frankofoni2-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/frankofoni2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/frankofoni2.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>International Francophonie Day is celebrated each year on March 20, commemorating the establishment of the Agency for Cultural and Technical Cooperation (ACCT) in 1970 in Niamey, Niger. This agency set the foundation for what would later become the International Organization of La Francophonie (OIF). Celebrating Francophonie means recognizing the power of language and culture to bring people together, thereby creating spaces of solidarity, understanding and collective reflection on a shared future. As the writer \u00c9douard Glissant so eloquently put it, French today is &#8220;decentred, multiplied, creolized,&#8221; spoken by nearly 300 million people across the globe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 21, the Department of Translation and Interpretation students came together to celebrate International Francophonie Day with a memorable event, organized by Dr. Ey\u00fcp \u00d6zg\u00fcr \u00d6zen. The celebration featured a full program combining art, music and linguistic appreciation. Students staged a play titled \u201cLa Vie est une Interpr\u00e9tation,\u201d creatively<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/?p=8875\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8876,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,80,192,164],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8875"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8875"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8881,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8875\/revisions\/8881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}